We focus on environmental governance, politics and economic development in Latin America.

Our research projects
- Globalization, political change and changing elites in Latin America
- Meat and Sustainability
- The business-peace agenda in practice
- Working Through Violence: SMEs and the SDGs in Fragile Urban Spaces (UrbanSMEs)
- Chinese Multilateralism and its Impact on Environmental and Democratic Governance in Africa and Latin America
- Human experiences with renewable energy and colonial politics
News and media contributions
in English, Norwegian and Spanish
- Benedicte Bull: Har Kina skylda for demokratisk forvitring i Latin-Amerika? Nov. 30, 2021
- Benedicte Bull: Presidentvalg i Chile Nov. 19, 2021
Publications
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Benedicte Bull & Francisco Robles Rivera: El COVID-19, las élites y el futuro de la economía política de la reducción de la desigualdad en América Latina
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Susanne Normann: Re-living a Common Future in the Face of Ecological Disaster: Exploring (Elements of) Guarani and Kaiowá Collective Memories, Political Imagination, and Critiques
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Alexander Dunlap and Martín Correa Arce: ‘Murderous energy’ in Oaxaca, Mexico: wind factories, territorial struggle and social warfare
Network
In June 2020 Norwegian researchers and scholars founded the Norwegian Association of Latin American Studies . Read about NALAS. |
Between 2008 and July 2020, SUM was the host of the Norwegian Latin America Research Network (NorLARNet). Read about NorLARNet. | SUM’s Latin America researchers are actively collaborting with the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, based at he Stockholm University. Visit NILAS. |